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Warehouse bins & cycle counts

Map physical storage locations (zone > rack > bin), put away / pick / move batches by location, and run cycle counts to reconcile bin stock.

5 min read · updated 28/05/2026

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You can read the guide. An owner or manager flips this Capability on in settings — it then lights up across the app.

Overview

When stock is just "in the godown," every pick is a hunt and every count is a guess. Warehouse bins gives each batch a real address — which shelf, which bin — so your team puts away, picks, and moves stock by location instead of by memory. Cycle counts then let you check one bin at a time and catch shortages before they become a billing fight.

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Warehouse Bins is switched offWarehouse Bins

You can read the guide. An owner or manager flips this Capability on in settings — it then lights up across the app.

This is an opt-in Capability — the Owner enables it from the entitlements list. Heads up: it is not wired into the live app yet. The engine (locations, put-away, picks, cycle counts) is built, but it has no screen and is not in the enable list today. Treat this page as a preview; enablement and a web screen land in a later release.

Where to find it

There is no live page for warehouse bins yet. It does not appear in the sidebar, and the existing Warehouse screen (/warehouse) is a different feature — that one is the order pick / pack / stock workflow, not bin mapping. Once this Capability ships its screen, this section will point you to it. Web only; no mobile screen is planned for the first release.

Key concepts

  • Location hierarchy — six levels, top to bottom: warehouse → zone → aisle → rack → shelf → bin. A bin is the leaf (the actual slot stock sits in); a warehouse is the root. Each location has a short code (like A, 01, B12) that must be unique among its siblings.
  • Bin capacity — only a bin can carry a capacity ceiling (units or kg). Set it and Neev blocks put-aways that would overflow the bin.
  • Batch placement — a batch can sit in more than one bin (split across the floor), and a bin can hold more than one batch (mixed shelving). Each placement records how much of the batch is in that bin.
  • Cycle count — counting one bin at a time on a rolling basis instead of shutting the godown for a full stocktake. Neev shows the system quantity, you enter what you actually counted, and it records the difference.
  • Mismatch — the gap between counted stock and system stock for a bin (counted minus system). Zero means the bin tallies; anything else is a variance to explain.

Common workflows

1
Build your locations
Create the warehouse, then its zones, aisles, racks, shelves and bins — each under its correct parent. Give every level a short code. Capacity (units/kg) goes on bins only.
2
Put a batch away
Pick the bin and the batch, enter the quantity. Neev places it and logs a put-away. If the bin is over its capacity ceiling, the put-away is blocked.
3
Pick from a bin
Select the placement and the quantity to pull. Pick the whole lot and the placement clears; pick part of it and the remaining quantity stays in the bin.
4
Move a batch between bins
Choose the placement and the destination bin. Neev pulls it from the source bin and drops it in the new one in one step — the destination's capacity is checked too.
5
Run a cycle count
Start a count on a bin — Neev shows the system quantity. Count the stock, submit what you saw. The mismatch is recorded against that bin for your variance report.

Role notes

This Capability is Owner-only by default. All six permissions — view locations, create/edit locations, put-away, pick/move, perform cycle counts, and view cycle-count history — sit with the Owner. No other role (Warehouse, Manager, Operator) gets them out of the box, even though the work is warehouse-floor work. If you want a warehouse hand putting stock away under their own login, that's a custom-role grant the Owner would set up once the Capability is live.

Note that even the Owner does not hold these permissions today: the Capability is not yet registered in the live system, so the keys aren't active for anyone until the release that wires it in.

Tips & time-savers

Tip
When you open a bin, its batches are listed oldest-expiry-first (FEFO order). Pick from the top and you clear the stock that's closest to expiry first — no need to read every batch date by hand.

Gotchas

Warning
Bin capacity is a hard stop. If a put-away or move would push a bin past its unit ceiling, Neev rejects it — it will not silently overfill the bin. Free up space or send the stock to a different bin.
Warning
When your counted quantity does not match the system quantity, you must add a note explaining the variance before the cycle count will save. A mismatch with no reason is not accepted.

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